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First time Roo'er, just need to know how do I cope with real life again after I've accepted the fact that I can't stay there? Life is really hum-drum where I'm at, the only thing special here is my lady.
Should I expect withdrawal? Cause I have this idea that I'm going to re-live that scene out of "Requiem for a Dream"
The anticipation is killing me to get there and an impending doom feeling is following that...
First time Roo'er, just need to know how do I cope with real life again after I've accepted the fact that I can't stay there? Life is really hum-drum where I'm at, the only thing special here is my lady.
Should I expect withdrawal? Cause I have this idea that I'm going to re-live that scene out of "Requiem for a Dream"
The anticipation is killing me to get there and an impending doom feeling is following that...
its really the worst thing ever.
but on the bright side..there will only be 360-ish days until the next one.
just have a few shows and maybe another fest lined up for the coming months, I mean sure it sucks being home from roo but when u got a show coming up a week later its not so bad.
you'll go home, take a shower, sit down on the couch and rest & relax and watch tv for a day. then the other 360 days of the year i suffer through withdrawls
In '05, the day I returned home, I stopped at the mall. Upon seeing a pair of crocs, a flood of memories or "flashbacks" if you will, entered my mind and I promptly left. Yeah, that rocked.
This year though, I have a wedding to go to the following weekend... I hope I'm still a little strung out for that...
First time Roo'er, just need to know how do I cope with real life again after I've accepted the fact that I can't stay there? Life is really hum-drum where I'm at, the only thing special here is my lady.
Should I expect withdrawal? Cause I have this idea that I'm going to re-live that scene out of "Requiem for a Dream"
The anticipation is killing me to get there and an impending doom feeling is following that...
its easy - plan for your next festy. always look towards the future
Years past have always been hard to shake when i get back. Thats the great thing about truly wonderful, emotion filled memories. This year i will be coming home to Tom Waits and Metal Gear Solid 4 so that will help a bit. That and pictures and videos. But yeah i already miss it and we havent even got our tickets yet! BOOOOOONNNNNAAAArRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
I don't know. Yes, there was the need to take a shower and maybe a nice hot cup of coffee and a good meal, but I certainly did not want to leave. And I cried when I did. And cried until a few days after I got back. Seems a little sappy, I know, but there's nothing like bonnaroo and you'll know that from the moment you get there. I knew when I drove off that amazing farm that I'd be back, over and over again.
Post by Fishing Maniac on May 28, 2008 18:56:46 GMT -5
I can't speak from experience for I too am a first timer, but I expect that with no fishing on the farm I will be in some serious withdrawal of my own by Sunday if not sooner. I am taking a 7 day break from the thick of striper season to try something different and exciting. When I return I will have only 3 weeks of striper thick followed some geographically inconvenient freshwater action. Only to be left in the overly warm water of despair that is the summer doldrums until the magical fall migration has me chasing bass, blues and weakies up and down the coast from late September to Thanksgiving. Then it is the cold winter of sub zero deep sea cod and tog. It's miserably cold and uncomfortable, but it holds me over until spring. Sort of like a meth head using no-doze and coffee as a substitute....
Take solace that you don't have another addiction to come home to. An addict's life is hell I tell you. Absolute hell!
Inforoo is as much for dealing with the afterglow as it is for getting ready.
... and don't forget all that in between stuff too...
... and mrfishingmaniac-1dude... they way you've been posting around here lately... call it what you want, but it's starting to look like you may just be adding one more item to that list of addictions... or not
Dude, I seriously can't concentrate on anything but bonnaroo right now. . .It's to the point where I'm poking myself in the eye with foreign objects. . . I think I just need to be sedated until Tuesday. . . . Dystopian Dream
Its always tough to go back to "reality". Best thing is to keep in mind that there will be a next time and your memories of this one will carry you through. Ok ..so that is pretty oversimplified isn't it?....... Believe me its a bit tougher than that (at least for me) I am 40 and did Dead tour for many years, Phish, and have been to many many fests over the years always hard to acclimate myself back into the whole job thing, thats the worst of it for me. Sure most peoples home lives are not as exciting as "roo or any fest for that matter but there is plenty of joy to be found at home to. I've done some vending in the past and would like to get back into it so I can have that Fest feel and earn a living doing something I love food, music, camping, cool folks, traveling, and not having to work 12 months out of the year. Work some fests play some fests...what a life. Enjoy your life with your lady and of course if feasible do other fests. I myself am limited at this point as I have a 6 year old who depends on Dad to provide things such as food, water, shelter, clothes, shoes, action figures, bubbles, Disney..... This will be my first 'roo and I will be pitchin' up camp solo. Look forward to meeting many kind brothers and sisters peace
I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right---P.T. Barnum "As I was walking up the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish to God he'd go away."
make sure you take lots of pictures/videos if that's your thing. I took over 700 pictures last year and I wish I took more. I love looking back at my pics, and my friends pics and watching videos online. It also definitely helps to have another small festival later in the summer or another show
The real problem for me is when it starts to get cold out... and I know that I have 6 more months until roo... but inforoo saved me AND IM ALMOST HOME!!!
I agree with GOUGEaway. At the end of Sunday I was just ready to go back home, take a shower, and sit in a comfortable couch/chair/whatever. But then about mid-July/early August the 'Roo withdrawals hit hard. It's been difficult waiting all year, but as many others have also said, Inforoo is the best place to get a small Bonnaroo fix throughout the rest of the year while you wait for four more magical days on the farm!
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